I signed up for a silversmithing class that will start in January and
have been trying to do a little research in preparation. I have mainly
been reading up on Native American jewelery because it has always
fascinated me.

One of my favorite designs is the pueblo or dragonfly
cross so I spent most of last week trying to get more information on the
design and its history. There is little information available on the
internet so I turned to amazon and found Heart of the Dragonfly:Historical Development of the Cross Necklaces of the Pueblo and Navajo Peoples. The
book was priced at $200 so I tried looking for it on other websites: eBay, bonzana, abe books, the usual only to find out that $200 was a
steal!

Anyways, since I could probably only afford to a buy a page from
the book I ordered it through my schools interlibrary loan program a few
days ago and it came today. It is a beautiful book. I read the whole
thing this morning and wanted to share some photos.

In addition I
scanned all the photos from the book to my flickr account for anyone
else who is interested in reading this book but can’t afford the high
price. You can find the set here.